Payday (1922)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | payday |
| Original title | Pay Day |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1922 |
| length | 26 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Charlie Chaplin |
| script | Charlie Chaplin |
| production | Charlie Chaplin |
| camera | Roland Totheroh |
| cut | Charlie Chaplin |
| occupation | |
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Payday (Original Title: Pay Day ) is an American comedy film directed by Charlie Chaplin from 1922.
action
The workers on a construction site only work quickly when the foreman is looking. Charlie also works there as a construction worker, but he is late that day. The foreman's daughter brings the food to her father. Charlie has nothing to eat. He helps himself to the food of the other workers, which they place on the construction elevator, which drives back and forth between the floors of the house in an uncontrolled manner.
It's payday. Charlie is not satisfied with the pay. His wife is already waiting for him to take the money from him. Charlie immediately goes to the Bachelor Club and is drunk when he makes his way home. The trams are overcrowded, he can hardly keep up and eventually has to walk. When he arrives home at five in the morning, his dinner has been eaten by stray cats and his wife is sleeping with a rolling pin in hand, waiting. He can't go to bed because the alarm clock goes off. Several attempts to lie down in a quiet place in the apartment are thwarted by his wife, who chases him back to work.
background
Pay Day was Chaplin's seventh and penultimate film for First National . It only served to fulfill the contract; Chaplin had already decided in early 1919 for a different distribution channel with Douglas Fairbanks , Mary Pickford and David Wark Griffith as United Artists . The film was made in Chaplin's studio and was released on April 2, 1922.
Web links
- Payday in theInternet Movie Database(English)